While you're at it, I heard once that the latest GCC *manual* (>500 pp
at last look) was larger than "the whole Unix distribution". Is
there any truth to that?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Stromberg" <drsalists at gmail.com>
To:"Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com>
Cc:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Sent:Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:08:43 -0800
Subject:Re: [TUHS] Kernel Sizes
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> For a presentation I'm doing this summer on FreeBSD, I thought it
would be
> cool to get the kernel sizes for various old flavors of Unix. I see
numbers
You might find http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/working-set/
interesting.
It intentionally fills virtual memory, and measures how much must
must
be malloc'd and filled with gibberish, to cause thrashing.
Subtracting that from the amount of physmem in the machine, gives a
sort of measure of OS overhead.
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